Created by the indigenous Uros people as protection against attacks from the Incas, the Uros Islands are one of the world's most innovative feats of human engineering. In 2011, Peruvian-American ...

High in the Andes, Lake Titicaca is home to one of the most fascinating human adaptations to nature, floating islands built entirely by hand. These islands are not natural landforms but carefully ...

A hardy lot, the Uros moved into the middle of the lake, which straddles Bolivia and Peru, to avoid the pesky Incans, who were busily subsuming other civilisations. They built boats and floating ...

Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link It's a living situation unlike any other. The Uros, a pre-Incan people in Peru, reside on artificial islands built out of totora reeds in Lake ...

The waters of South America’s largest freshwater lake have severely receded leaving the Indigenous people around its shores struggling to maintain their livelihoods ‘This is the first time since I was ...

Lake Titicaca has a lot to recommend it, but among its most remarkable features are the floating Uros islands. The 40 or so man-made islands are woven from layers of tortora reeds, which grow on the ...